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ཀུན་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བ། | Glossary of Terms
ཀུན་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བ།
kun tu sbyor ba
saṃyojana
- Term
A set of ten concepts and emotional reactions that perpetuate one’s continued rebirth in saṃsāra: false attribution of a self based in relation to the aggregates (satkāyadṛṣṭi; ’jig tshogs la lta ba), doubt (vicikitsā; the tshom), privileging rituals and observances (śīlavrataparāmarśa; tshul khrims dang brtul zhugs mchog tu ’dzin pa), craving sense pleasures (kāmarāga; ’dod pa la ’dod chags), malice (vyāpāda; gnod sems), craving rebirth in the realm of subtle form (rūparāga; gzugs la chags pa), craving rebirth in the realm of the immaterial (arūpyarāga; gzugs med pa’i ’dod chags), pride (māna; nga rgyal), mental agitation (auddhatya; rgod pa), and ignorance (avidyā; ma rig pa).
- Fetter
- ཀུན་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བ།
- kun tu sbyor ba
- saṃyojana
- Fetter
- ཀུན་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བ།
- kun tu sbyor ba
- saṃyojana
- Fetter
- ཀུན་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བ།
- kun tu sbyor ba
- saṃyojana
A set of ten concepts and emotional reactions that perpetuate one’s continued rebirth in saṃsāra: false attribution of a self based in relation to the aggregates (satkāyadṛṣṭi; ’jig tshogs la lta ba), doubt (vicikitsā; the tshom), privileging rituals and observances (śīlavrataparāmarśa; tshul khrims dang brtul zhugs mchog tu ’dzin pa), craving sense pleasures (kāmarāga; ’dod pa la ’dod chags), malice (vyāpāda; gnod sems), craving rebirth in the realm of subtle form (rūparāga; gzugs la chags pa), craving rebirth in the realm of the immaterial (arūpyarāga; gzugs med pa’i ’dod chags), pride (māna; nga rgyal), mental agitation (auddhatya; rgod pa), and ignorance (avidyā; ma rig pa).
- Fetter
- ཀུན་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བ།
- kun tu sbyor ba
- saṃyojana
Fetters binding one to saṃsāra; they come in groups of three (ignorance, hatred, and desire) or ten.
- Engage with
- ཀུན་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བ།
- kun tu sbyor ba
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- Fetters
- ཀུན་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བ།
- kun tu sbyor ba
- saṃyojana
Synonym of emotional defilements, which lead beings to act negatively and prevent them from acting virtuously, hence keeping them fettered to suffering in their next lives.